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ldb lt'isll the distillation of petroleum-one gallon of UNITED STATES V PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MILLER, or INGEBSOLL, ONTARIO, CANADA.

PAINT.

SIECIFIGATION forming part/ Application To all whom it may concern I Be it known that 1, CHARLES MILLER, of Ingersoll, in the county of Oxford and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paints; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to paints; and it consists in a ii r e nd water proof paint composed of ingredients substantially as hereinafter specified.

To make two gallons of my paint I take onehalf gallon of tar-the residuum produced by resin-oil, and add to it two pints of lime-water, one pint of a solution of glue and Sal-soda, one pint of a potash solution and .,asbestus four ounces of powdered alum, tlirwnces co'pperas, and two and a half pounds of Venetian red, all being thoroughly mixed and infiled December 51, 1882. (No specimens.) Patented in petrolefi'm-tar, resin-oil,

of Letters Patent No. 274,807, dated March 27, 1883.

Canada March 11, 1882, No. 14,395.

pounds of glue to one gallon water, and three pounds sal-soda to a similar amount of water, and the solution of potash in the proportion of one pound potash to one gallon of water, which is then mixed with one pound of asbestus held in suspension in one gallon of water.

The paint should be heated before application to the surfaces to be fire or water proofed.

I claim as my invention- A fire and water proof paint, composed of of glue ,and Sal-soda, alum, copperas; potash solution, asbestus and Venetian red in about the proportions specified. o

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two sub scribing witnesses.

CHARLES MILLER.

Witnesses:

0. Simpson,

corporated. The solution of glue and sal-soda is to be made in the proportion of about two A. B. THOMAS.

lime-water, solution 

